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Wednesday, 5 January 2011

STOP PRESS: We hear that Avon Police have now reconsidered the outright ban and have invited ITN/ITVnews crews to attend future Press Conferences.

At Wednesday's press conference by Avon and Somerset police, a TV crew from ITN was told it was not welcome. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on a"peculiar" situation:

Extraordinary goings-on in Bristol where a British policeforce decided to exclude a team from ITV News on the basis that they did not like their last report. Clearly, if we are moving along the road to a place where the police decide they will only take questions from "trusted" reporters - then we are heading for a very bad place indeed. ITV News is part of ITN which produces Channel 4 Newsamong other programmes. So, interest duly declared - what happened? It seems Avon and Somerset police have objected to an itemon ITV News at Ten last night by Geraint Vincent. In that report a former murder squad detective was taken to where the body was found. He made some criticisms of the police investigation. He suggested pieces of litter possibly covered with DNA had not been picked up - although they could have been dropped after the event ten days ago. But this morning, ITV roll up to the presser in Bristol, only to be denied entry. The police explained this very rare action in the following way: "We have made a complaint to Ofcom in respect of the unfair, naïve and irresponsible reporting on the ITN ten o'clock news yesterday evening."As we are still awaiting a response to our complaint it would be inappropriate for us to comment any further at this time. "A live murder investigation has been under way now for just twelve days and the media have played an important role in helping us to appeal for witnesses. While we appreciate the support we have received so far from most of the media we must step in if we feel coverage will hamper the investigation. Our primary aim will always be to secure justice for Joanna."I make no judgement at all about last night's report. But surely nor should the police. Their business is to solve a terrible murder and it's hard to see how diverting energy into the distraction of media censorship will further that paramount aim. I followed the Raoul Moat business last year and Northumbria police complained long and hard about some aspects of the reporting of that case. But they never, ever, contemplated anything like this. So is there something peculiar about Avon and Somerset police force? Well the evidence suggests there might be. Back in 2007 the same force held a briefing for the media which revealed that the police would be exhuming the bodies of former residents at the Parkfields care home who were suspected of having been poisoned by the home's owners. Freelance journalist Simon Trump found himself uninvited to this event. He'd been covering the story closely for some time. When Trump, a former national newspaper journalist of 12 years who worked for the Sunday Times and Today, contacted them he was told he was not invited. A press officer told him that only journalists who the police have a special working relationship with and could trust were invited. So it seems we have a police force here that does believe in censoring any media outlets with whose coverage it disagrees or with whom it feels it does not have a working relationship. Other forces will be watching closely. Because the police of course have one major thing in common with the media - given a proverbial inch, they will happily take a country mile. If other chief constables see that Bristol and Avon can get away with this - rest assured they will all be at it.

Julian Bray comments: I have to declare an interest. ITN and other front line news organisations from time to time invite me to contribute as a media and travel specialist to their news bulletins, I lawfully hold a police recognised Press identity card and I also chair an award winning neighbourhood watch organisation in Cambridgeshire. If Police are denying access to bona fide news organisations on the ground they do not like the tone or quality of reporting then, the problem isn't with the news organisation but the Police.

In Cambridgeshire, we have a close working relationship with police and the new Chief Constable is well able to robustly correct any stray or biased news reporting and that is how it should be. During the Lord Lucan investigation several decades ago where Lucan was thought to have murdered a nanny, I was placed in exactly the same position as a BBC radio news reporter when Chelsea London police asked the assembled journalists for ideas.

With my tape recorder running I asked the senior policeman in charge [Roy Ransom?] "You called the news conference but refuse to give us any information. I don't think you know anything at all new and are simply on a fishing expedition?" With that, Police called an abrupt halt to the conference and immediately cleared the police station..... they never did find Lord Lucan.....

Julian Bray has added this extra comment: As recorded above Avon Police have now reconsidered their ban on the ITN /ITVnews crews and have invited them to attend future press conferences. The right decision, for which Police have to be given due credit. It would also be a good idea if the Chief Constable was to present the wider aspects of this case to the media as it relates to policing and not leave it all to the operational team whosed media presentational skills are still in development as it were....

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